This one is for Captain Charlie. Mainly because she nagged me to stop being uber busy and post a new recipe.
I have been uber busy. Today I spent 3 hours putting electrodes on someone's head.
All 64 of them.
Then I had to scrub them clean with a toothbrush.
And then I almost lost all will to live.
But my faith in cake put me back on the straight road and even if deadlines are close and I am still far away from putting electrodes together in less than an hour, here it is.
The one.
The only.
The reason I got an electric mixer.
The Flourless Chocolate Cake.
You are going to need:
- 6 eggs
- 400 gr of chocolate (dark and semi sweet)
- 1 and 1/2 cups of sugar
- 100 gr of butter
- loads of patience to deal with the washing up afterwards.
Place some greaseproof paper at the bottom of a spring-form pan
Preheat over to 160 Celsius.
Separate 6 large eggs. Yolks in one bowl and egg whites in the other.
Break up the chocolate , add the butter and melt until smooth.
Then add the 6 egg yolks to the chocolate and sugar mixture one at a time whisking after each addition.
In a medium bowl beat the six eggs whites until stiff peaks form. (Yey for electric mixers!)
Gently Fold your egg white mixture into the melted chocolate mixture until combined. Pour it in your pan and bake for 1 hour.
In the meantime clean up the mess you just made.
And draw faces on eggs.
The egg survivors....
When the cake comes out it will look a bit like this
And then it will start sinking
Let it cool down for an hour on the counter and then for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator before releasing it from the springform pan
Dust with a bit of icing sugar and Voila!
Eleleator going up....Eleleator going down....
